Prayers of the Faithful
The Shifting Spiritual Life of American Catholics
by James P. McCartin
ISBN: 9780674049130
$25.95 Hardcover
Harvard University Press

Tracing dramatic changes in the practice of faith among American Catholics through evolving ideas about prayer, James P. McCartin documents the novel ways of praying that transcended the formal rites of earlier generations and became the primary catalyst behind Catholics’ growing sense of spiritual independence.